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>> so we have a perfect study in which 50 states you could track health costs, and some states like texas have set very severe caps. and they have not seen lower trend lines because they set the caps. so it's absolutely true that doctors practice defensive medicine, it's true that we need changes. that's all true. it won't fix the cost trends. the cost trends are because of unnecessary capacity, it's because of irrationality in the system, it's because of, you know, delivering too much of the wrong kinds of services. so, you know, you have lots of -- you know, the ama's answer to this and physicians' answer to this is always tort reform. and you can say, you know, yes, you're right, the tort system need to be fixed, but that's not the answer to the cost trends. >> well, thank you, dr. brenner. that was incredibly interesting. [applause] >> thank you so much. ms. . [applause] >> that, i want to ask dan, our nga executive director, to give us an update of the work on the association in assisting states to control health costs while maintaining quality. >> thank you. you probably won't be su
>> so we have a perfect study in which 50 states you could track health costs, and some states like texas have set very severe caps. and they have not seen lower trend lines because they set the caps. so it's absolutely true that doctors practice defensive medicine, it's true that we need changes. that's all true. it won't fix the cost trends. the cost trends are because of unnecessary capacity, it's because of irrationality in the system, it's because of, you know, delivering too much of...
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i returned to the university of texas where i got my ph.d. in philosophy and went to the jobs bulletin board in the ole thing up there was a notice from the department of labor about minimum wage and what you're entitled to. it didn't look so promising out there. so i saw student walked by and kelly is a philosophy student so i know what they look like. i was one once. i said how are you doing? he said fine. i got made ph.d. here. he said how's that working out for you? i said fine, that i have a radio show. he said that's good. that's dialogue. that's tradition. i hope it is. anyway we talk a lot about s.t.e.m. jobs he could spare the jobs it seems that are very much worth it and they of course have studied is quite worth it. we based some of the conclusions we came up with in the book on the return on investment on a pay scale from the year 2012 to 2013 the numbers are out too and this has shown that this pattern continues. the top 10 institutions in terms of giving you a return on investment are all technical institutions are institutions
i returned to the university of texas where i got my ph.d. in philosophy and went to the jobs bulletin board in the ole thing up there was a notice from the department of labor about minimum wage and what you're entitled to. it didn't look so promising out there. so i saw student walked by and kelly is a philosophy student so i know what they look like. i was one once. i said how are you doing? he said fine. i got made ph.d. here. he said how's that working out for you? i said fine, that i have...
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i return to the university of texas -- texas. i went to the jobs bulletin board and the only thing was that there was a notice about minimum wage and what you are entitled to. it didn't look so promising out there. i saw a student walked by and he could tell he was a philosophy student because i know what they look like. i was one once. i said how are you doing? i got my ph.d. here. he said how is that working out for you? i said fine, i have a radio show. he said that's good. that's dialogue in a certain tradition. i said i hope it is. anyway we talk a lot about stimac jobs in the book because they are the jobs it seems are very much worth it that they're the course of study at least at the present is quite worth it. we based some of the conclusions we came up with in the book on the return on investment findings in the pay scale from the year 2012 to 2013 numbers that are out to math. this has shown that this pattern continues. the top 10 institutions in terms of giving you a return on investment are all technical institutions
i return to the university of texas -- texas. i went to the jobs bulletin board and the only thing was that there was a notice about minimum wage and what you are entitled to. it didn't look so promising out there. i saw a student walked by and he could tell he was a philosophy student because i know what they look like. i was one once. i said how are you doing? i got my ph.d. here. he said how is that working out for you? i said fine, i have a radio show. he said that's good. that's dialogue...
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texas republican senator ted cruise cruz. what is he saying? >> he released his birth certificate in the story in the "dallas morning news" that was posted late sunday night that talk about an issue we have been looking at for awhile which is can he run for president and serve as president. he was born in canada to a u.s.-citizens mother and cuban mother. there's never been a president foreign born like that. legal experts generally agree he can probably serve as president. it remains somewhat uncertain whether or not that's the case. >> legal experts are claiming that he is a canada citizens. beyond acknowledging that news. what is he doing in response? >> well,, you know, i think this is a roleout for him. he's tick -- sticks his tow toe to the presidential process. he was in iowa and going to new hampshire for another event. those are two important state in the presidential process. i think it was an effort by his team to get the issue out of the way, and have this debate at the time when the heat of the campaign is not being waged when they
texas republican senator ted cruise cruz. what is he saying? >> he released his birth certificate in the story in the "dallas morning news" that was posted late sunday night that talk about an issue we have been looking at for awhile which is can he run for president and serve as president. he was born in canada to a u.s.-citizens mother and cuban mother. there's never been a president foreign born like that. legal experts generally agree he can probably serve as president. it...
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. >> host: eric and freeport texas. good morning you are on the washington journal. >> guest: everyday the rich zero leal executives sell 40 million gallons of gasoline and diesel to foreign countries. every day by over a million barrels of crude oil. we don't want to say a word about it. why is it you don't want to talk about energy experts? i think we should approve the pipeline as far as oklahoma so that it's easy to sell to americans and hard to sell to foreigners. we should ban the sale of gasoline be sold. thank you. >> guest: i personally think exports are a good and healthy for our economy. they create jobs, too tebeau i want to make sure that for the keystone pipeline perspective that the oil transported from canada to that pipeline does stay in the united states. the reality is that it goes to as many as six or seven refineries from kansas, oklahoma, texas to louisiana. there is no doubt the vast majority of not 100% of the gasoline will be distributed within the united states and not put on. but there have be
. >> host: eric and freeport texas. good morning you are on the washington journal. >> guest: everyday the rich zero leal executives sell 40 million gallons of gasoline and diesel to foreign countries. every day by over a million barrels of crude oil. we don't want to say a word about it. why is it you don't want to talk about energy experts? i think we should approve the pipeline as far as oklahoma so that it's easy to sell to americans and hard to sell to foreigners. we should ban...
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some states like texas set very severe caps. they haven't seen lower trend lines because they set the cap. it's absolutely true that doctors practice defensive medicine. it's true the tort system doesn't work. it's true we need changes. it's all true. it won't fix the terrorist trends. they because of it's because of a rationality in the system. it's because of delivering too many of the wrong kinds of social security. yo lot of ama's answer to this and physician's answer is tort reform. you can say, you know, yes, you are right the tort system needs to be fixed. it's not the answer to the cost trends. >> thank you, doctor. that was incredibly interesting. [applause] i want to ask our executive director to give us an update on the association and assistanting state to control health costs while maintaining quality. >> thank you we're trying to emulate what jeff it doing. we have an agreement with jeff trying to utilize his technique. we have awarded seven states project to see if we can take some of the technique jeff and his co
some states like texas set very severe caps. they haven't seen lower trend lines because they set the cap. it's absolutely true that doctors practice defensive medicine. it's true the tort system doesn't work. it's true we need changes. it's all true. it won't fix the terrorist trends. they because of it's because of a rationality in the system. it's because of delivering too many of the wrong kinds of social security. yo lot of ama's answer to this and physician's answer is tort reform. you...
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the west nile outbreak we were very fortunate to be able to help our colleagues in texas. i think last year there were about five or 6,000 cases of west nile. about one-third of them actually occurred -- anybody from dallas? no takers. lucky for you. about one-third of the cases occurred in dallas. we were able to use the public health preparedness resources to help them with mosquito spray in the basement efforts. so an example there, same thing you've already heard about the boston marathon and how we in conjunction with our partners in the hospital preparedness program were able to get the community ready for that bombing and other such events. i could go along with c ante and influenza. but just examples that this isn't abstract. this is what is going on in your communities every day to make sure that you are protected from public health threats. this is to give you a reality of the situation of what happened to the public health funding within your state and local health departments over the last decade. and going off of your comment, i would like to have platinum lev
the west nile outbreak we were very fortunate to be able to help our colleagues in texas. i think last year there were about five or 6,000 cases of west nile. about one-third of them actually occurred -- anybody from dallas? no takers. lucky for you. about one-third of the cases occurred in dallas. we were able to use the public health preparedness resources to help them with mosquito spray in the basement efforts. so an example there, same thing you've already heard about the boston marathon...
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senator wendy davis will talk about the political climate in texas and her future plans. you can see her comments starting live at 1 eastern on c-span. and then live at 7:30 eastern, the new jersey democratic candidates debate. newark mayor cory booker faces hush holt and frank pallone as well as sheila oliver, and that'll start at 7:30 eastern, again on c-span. and all this week at 7 eastern here on c-span2, it's an encore q&a. tonight, nasa administrator charles bolden. he talks about his experiences as an astronaut and current duties working for the world's largest space agency. >> for me to say that the house has done something right. i'm teasing about that. the house, they're fine. but they've actually passed some of this, and i think that we ought to look at what they've done and, certainly, if we want to take a stab at doing our own thing in the senate, that's great, but we need to get moving on this in the senate, and this is a real threat, it's a real problem, and all of my colleagues who are on the intelligence committee -- i'm not, but they all lay awake at nig
senator wendy davis will talk about the political climate in texas and her future plans. you can see her comments starting live at 1 eastern on c-span. and then live at 7:30 eastern, the new jersey democratic candidates debate. newark mayor cory booker faces hush holt and frank pallone as well as sheila oliver, and that'll start at 7:30 eastern, again on c-span. and all this week at 7 eastern here on c-span2, it's an encore q&a. tonight, nasa administrator charles bolden. he talks about his...
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senator lieutenant governor, usually the most powerful office in texas? >> i can say with absolute certainty i will run for one of two offices, either my state senate seat for the governor. [applause] >> one more question on these lines. would you consider running as vp candidate with hillary clinton? [laughter] [applause] >> in answer to that, i would say we will have to find out whether hillary is planning to run for president first. >> texas state senator, wendy davis, also addressed the political climate in texas, education funding and women's health care. see her entire remarks at the national press club at the standout work. >> new jersey voters go to the polls a week from tomorrow to pick a democratic candidate for the late senator frank lab berkeley b.c. c-span will have live coverage at 7:30 eastern tonight's candidate debate. newark mayor cory booker faces rush holt, state assembly member sheila oliver and congressman frank. >> i've been pushing for this in a senate that would remove cybersecurity legislation. it's big, complicated, but it means
senator lieutenant governor, usually the most powerful office in texas? >> i can say with absolute certainty i will run for one of two offices, either my state senate seat for the governor. [applause] >> one more question on these lines. would you consider running as vp candidate with hillary clinton? [laughter] [applause] >> in answer to that, i would say we will have to find out whether hillary is planning to run for president first. >> texas state senator, wendy...
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texas is pretty hostile to the idea. and lot of places are. in part because, you know, even though there's a, you know, very fast, you know, rising tide of acceptance for the idea in particular the idea of medical marijuana it remains a classic call issue like gay marriage and a lot of other things that americans have broadly support but, you know, small groups of strongly opposed people have been to be use these issues glown a devicive way. so right no there's no federal fowsh legalize marijuana. there's not a single member of the senate who is -- you can describe in any way as promarijuana or having, you know, proposed any kind of, like, you know, even medical marijuana legislation. >> host: ryan next, huntington station, new york. good morning. >> caller: good morning. so far he talking about the economic upsides of legalization, but i'm afraid of the possible economic down side wide spread legalization and that as it becomes more legal, it's going deprive revenue and labor from good american corporations like the -- constructions -- correc
texas is pretty hostile to the idea. and lot of places are. in part because, you know, even though there's a, you know, very fast, you know, rising tide of acceptance for the idea in particular the idea of medical marijuana it remains a classic call issue like gay marriage and a lot of other things that americans have broadly support but, you know, small groups of strongly opposed people have been to be use these issues glown a devicive way. so right no there's no federal fowsh legalize...
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but i looked around the other country in other districts no one knows about, and we hear of aldean, texas? aldean is houston's poor cousin. scrubby country, about as poor as union city, latino, african-american, spattering of white folks, and with half as much money union city spends on its kids, they are doing well, narrowing the achievement gap, and what are they doing? very much the same kinds of things union city is, and what is that? start with preschool, work up the curriculum. if there's a lot of kids from other countries, you better have a good bilingual program, a rich bilingual program that pays attention to language fluency and how they do in academic subjects. today it's bilingual, tomorrow english only, that happens in so many districts, especially in california. there's esl classes, day one. here kids transition slowly. this school district knows what educators know. that is it's really important to get a grounding in your home language before learning the second language. really important to hold on to that home language because being bilingual in the society is a huge adva
but i looked around the other country in other districts no one knows about, and we hear of aldean, texas? aldean is houston's poor cousin. scrubby country, about as poor as union city, latino, african-american, spattering of white folks, and with half as much money union city spends on its kids, they are doing well, narrowing the achievement gap, and what are they doing? very much the same kinds of things union city is, and what is that? start with preschool, work up the curriculum. if there's...